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– The Weekly goes fishing. (For the record, I’m fine with papers doing this generally. You don’t know what you find until you look. Still, the self interest between the news and business sides is a bit odd.)

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But Bachmann saw something far more sinister: As she told a conference in 2003, “Tax-free zones are meant to be the catalyst to put the final nail in this system to have a state-planned economy.” She railed against the plan as a redistribution of wealth, and framed it in the larger context of a push for what she called a “Soviet-style” economy, in which bureaucrats, businesses, and public schools would work together to create an economy that matched their own globalistic vision.

@1 Pawlenty is a communist. He wants to redistribute wealth. He’d simply redistribute it from the poor to the rich, instead of the other way around, which is only a technical detail. If you’re a redistributionist, you’re a commie, period!! Bachmann is right for a change.

No, I don’t agree with him about blocking red light cameras. At first suspicious that red light cameras were merely a sinister scheme of greedy municipalities to extract more money from hapless citizens, I’ve come to realise that fewer rabbits will be squashed in crosswalks if more drivers actually STOP at red lights instead of barreling through the intersection at full tilt. So, I hope Eyman’s initiatives to block red light cameras fail — and fail miserably, at that.

The City of Monroe is planning to SUE the backers of that city’s “repeal red light cameras” initiative. That’s right, the city is gonna SUE them for filing an initiative!

Eyman said, “It is really an extraordinarily arrogant thing to do to sue your own citizens for exercising their constitutional right to initiative,” he said. “It is a total waste of city revenue, (which) they claim they don’t have a lot of, but they seem to have plenty to hire a lawyer.”

I gotta agree with him on this. It is extraordinarily arrogant for public officials to sue their own citizens to keep them from voting. Look, guys (meaning you who push the levers of power in Monroe City Hall), I’ll tell you the same thing I told Goldy (an Eastern Carpetbagger) when Goldy was railing against our state initiative process: This is the West, and we like our direct democracy out here in the West, so get used to it.

If you want to take away my right to vote on anything I please, you’ll have to pry my initiative from my cold dead fingers.

Well, no resolution of the debt crisis in sight. In fact, the situation appears to be spinning out of control. That’s fine with me — I WANT a Treasury default and a stock market crash, because I sold a bunch of stocks and piled up cash over the last few weeks so I can take shares off the hands of panic-stricken Republicans for 30 cents on the dollar. So let’s hear a great big cheer for default!

@11 I’m older than he is, and I’ll bet I could hit a golf ball almost that far, although there’s no telling where the hell it would end up. Since hole-in-ones are random-chance events, I have as good odds of making one as he does.

Speaking of Eyman, no comments on Joni Balter’s editorial in the Times yesterday about governments putting levies on the ballot. Apparently, voters are overwhelmed by being asked to tax themselves. Isn’t this what Eyman and the Times wanted?

Speaking of Eyman, no comments on Joni Balter’s editorial in the Times yesterday about governments putting levies on the ballot. Apparently, voters are overwhelmed by being asked to tax themselves. Isn’t this what Eyman and the Times wanted?

State Democrats are trying to get the most mileage possible out of an incident last week that prompted King County Young Republicans to call 9-1-1 to report — ohmagawd! —a Democrat in their midst.

The whole thing started on July 7 when the Young Rs rented out the North Bellevue Community Center to hear a speech from Rob McKenna, the attorney general who would be governor. Dems sent a person with a videocamera to record the event for posterity, and likely for slicing and dicing to use in various anti-McKenna campaign ads.

@21. Roger Rabbit spews: —————————– This conflicts with generic ballot data and amounts to asking children if their allowance should be cut. If the alternative is a ruined Obama economy, fear trumps desires.

@23 It’s true you can manipulate poll results by how you frame the questions. It’s also true that Americans love to get something for nothing and programs like Social Security, Medicare, etc. will always be popular as long as people think they’re free.

As for the economy, that’s pretty straightforward. Unregulated free markets always destroy themselves. Competition always eliminates market players until only one monopolist remains. And history has made it very clear that electing Republicans is always followed by corruption and economic crashes.

There are two very simple reasons why Republicans should not be put back in power. First, they caused the mess we’re in right now. Second, they’re still wedded to Hooverite economics, which will lead to another disaster.

I’m not saying Obama is a great president. He’s no F.D.R. — he had a chance to be, but traded that chance away for Wall Street campaign money. But it wasn’t Obama who ruined this economy; the Republicans you voted for did that (which, btw, makes you a culpable actor). Obama’s mistake with the stimulus was that it wasn’t big enough. He wasn’t wrong to save the auto companies, but he wasn’t right in letting banks use bailout funds to pay executive bonuses and pay off counterparties. He also can be faulted for failing to activate the 101st Airborne Division for domestic insurrection duty when the banks began mass-producing falsified foreclosure paperwork and filing it with courts. The bank executives responsible for that should have been summarily shot without trials the same way Osama bin Laden was — they are Enemies of the People and Enemies of the State. And Obama has been waaaaay too kind to numbskull Republicans who want to bring the economy down for a second time by forcing a government default. Obama’s faults are not enough, not too much, leadership.

For you to scontend otherwise is, well, the stupidity of ignorance.

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Puddybud, identifying northwest liberals who elected an underexperienced man to the presidency weighed down by an oversized egospews:

But it was quoted as “Just a family vacation” by the half-term quitter herself. But using political donations on a personal vacation doesn’t bother you. ‘Cause she’s not a ‘D.’

BTW, she stayed at the 4 Diamond Jersey City Hyatt Regency. Minimum rate for a King room, $374. I’d guess she probably stayed in a suite @ $500 or more. So “living high” off political donations seems a pretty accurate description.

(These are according to public FEC filings, oh self-proclaimed wonder master of the internet search. Seems to me a moron would be the kind of person who tries to ignore easily verifiable FACTS and ridicules people for displaying FACTS without looking into them. Mike Rogers, yaaaargh….)

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